Template:Did you know nominations/Premiership of Maurice Duplessis

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by PrimalMustelid talk 16:49, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Premiership of Maurice Duplessis

  • ... that Premier Maurice Duplessis's hatred of communism was so strong that his campaign once took a full-page ad accusing the government of Canada of "forcing Quebeckers to eat communist eggs"? Source: For the image of the ad, see this article in Le Droit; source used: Linteau, Paul-André; Durocher, René; Robert, Jean-Claude (1991). Quebec since 1930, p. 281
    • ALT1: ... that Télesphore-Damien Bouchard, leader of the opposition in Quebec while Maurice Duplessis was premier, described his rule as "the only portable dictatorship in the democratic world"? Source: Swan, George Steven (1984). "A Preliminary Comparison of Long's Louisiana and Duplessis' Quebec". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 25 (3): 289–319. ISSN 0024-6816. JSTOR 4232361.
    • ALT2: ... that during Maurice Duplessis's second term as premier of Quebec, his government didn't run any tenders because, since the government would never award them to enemies, he deemed them "hypocritical"? Source: Roberts, Leslie (1963). The Chief: A Political Biography of Maurice Duplessis. Clarke, Irwin, p. 93.
    • ALT3: ... that Premier Maurice Duplessis, angry at the fact that the federal government of Canada was taking taxes at the expense of the provinces, once demanded that Ottawa "return our loot"? Source: Gagnon, Alain-G.; Sarra-Bournet, Michel, eds. (1997). Duplessis: entre la grande noirceur et la société libérale (PDF). Montréal: Éditions Québec Amérique. ISBN 2-89037-935-3. OCLC 78036516, p. 195
    • ALT4: ... that Premier Maurice Duplessis adopted the current flag of Quebec? Source: "70 ans pour le drapeau national du Québec". Radio-Canada.ca (in Canadian French). 19 January 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
    • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Political prisoners in Poland
    • Comment: Choose the most interesting, there is a lot to choose from and I guess you will have your own ideas, which will be great. I don't particularly feel like any one is better than the other

Improved to Good Article status by Szmenderowiecki (talk). Self-nominated at 05:18, 8 March 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Premiership of Maurice Duplessis; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: May we use this for the April Fools' Day set? ALTs 0, 1, and 3 are all great options MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 12:57, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

We are in WP:QPQ backlog mode. Double reviews are required.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 06:42, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
I see then, thanks for letting me know. Just one more needed Szmenderowiecki. MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 12:35, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
The QPQ check tool to the right counts only 9. I don't really trust the QPQ tool that much because it barely counts 40% of my own nominations. But If the nominator feels that they have done less than 20 noms this can go forward or they can do the double. This case is on the honor system.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 18:46, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
I only see eight nominations credited in Szmenderowiecki's talk page history. Under the circumstances, TonyTheTiger's reasoning for requesting another QPQ is not justified, so I'm restoring the previous tick by reviewer MyCatIsAChonk. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:14, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for restoring the tick, my page says this should be the eighth nomination, but I may be mistaken in my count. If I'm not and we can move on, let's go with the original option (the very first one) or ALT3, up to promoter's discretion, but I don't particularly care if it's on 1 April (Duplessis was born on the 20th). Szmenderowiecki (talk) 11:46, 24 March 2024 (UTC)